Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1928 — Page 14

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STATE TAKES GHOUL PLOT TO SUPREME COURT Tribunal to Rule If Body of u Husband Is Property jp of Widow, Whether the body ot her husband is the property of the widow and if stolen from the grave would be a personal injury is to be decided by the supreme court. It has been placed before them by the'r*-' n a reply to a brief prepared by Bernard Keltner, deputy attorney general. The case is that of Ralph Meek. 30, Cataract, Ind., sentenced to from one to five years at Indiana State reformatory and fined SIOO for blackmail in Owen Circuit court. . ~ , . Meek, it is alleged, sent the following letter to Mrs. Mary Ann Halton, a widow neighbor m the small town where he lives. Mrs. Halton’s husband was buried in the Baptist church yard in the village in 1926. The letter was sent last February and read: "You will be somewhat surprles to get a letter like this But we always give everyone a canch to do as we say. We know you dearly love your Husman and •we know that you woulden want his body move form where he is resting. "But we have been offer a grate some Os money for a man about the size of your man and we are going to get his body if you dont do as we say for you to do. For this is all we do for a liven is robbe graves. So if you will do as we want you to his body will never be taken by us. “You can eather leave S2OO in Cash tinder the south west corner of the big red store across frem your barn. Leave the money in a glas gar And be sure and put it under there after night And there is one thing sure dont say anything to no one about this or the body will be got away. "So we tvil give you untill next Wednesday night to leave the money there And if it isent there you may look anytime for your Husman body to be gone from his grave. And dont say anything to no one or it will be taken sure. “Yours watching "We have been down there and look over everything over So you had better do as we say.” „ The letter was posted at Cloverdale Feb. 8, 1928. Sheriff Marvin B. Lucas and his deputies posted themselves at the store under which the jar had been planted. Lucas would have caught Meek taking it out, but he got tangled in a barbed wire fence, according to the evidence as reported in the appeal brief. The law says that blackmail must be threatening to property or personal injury. The court must decide which catagory covers a corpse.

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BOTH PARTIES PREDICT LAROE WOMEN’S VOTE Record in Balloting Will Be Set, Politicians Believe. BY CARL B. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Both political parties anticipated today that the woman vote in next Tuesday’s election will be the largest ever.

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